"Men never do evil so
cheerfully and so completely as when they do so from religious conviction"
Blaise Pascal
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First they ignore you, then they
ridicule you, then they fight you, then you win. -- Gandhi
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"That's right, they stink on
ice." Mel Brooks
"Having resentment is like taking poison and waiting for the other person to die" --
Malachy McCourt
"You miss 100% of the shots you never take" - Wayne Gretzky
"All we learn from history is that we learn nothing from history."- Hegel
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I'd rather have a free bottle in front of me than a
prefrontal lobotomy.
-- Fred Allen
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"A man who wants to lead the
orchestra must turn his back on the crowd." - unknown
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"There are two means of refuge
from the miseries of life: music and cats."
Albert Schweitzer
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"A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler whom they consider God-fearing and pious. On the other hand, they do less easily move against him, wrongly believing that he has the Gods on his side."
–Aristotle, Politica bk v (ca. 340 BCE)
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My three alarm clocks are ages 8, 5,
and 3. They do not have "snooze buttons." --Blue Gal
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"Pessimism of the intellect,
optimism of the will." -- Antonio Gramsci
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The uniform makes for brotherhood,
since when universally adopted it covers up all differences of class and
country.
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"To be conscious that you are
ignorant is a great step to knowledge." ~ Benjamin Disraeli (1804 - 1881)
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Some scientists claim that hydrogen,
because it is so plentiful, is the basic building block of the universe. I
dispute that. I say that there is more stupidity than hydrogen, and that is the
basic building block of the universe.
Frank Zappa
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"You can't wait for
inspiration. You have to go after it with a club." Jack London
“How quickly all these things
disappear” –Marcus Aurelius
A man can be happy with any woman as
long as he does not love her.
- Oscar Wilde
A fanatic is one who can't change
his mind and won't change the subject.
(Winston Churchill)
An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than
he knows.
(Dwight David Eisenhower)
I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us
with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use.
(Galileo Galilei)
God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.
(Voltaire)
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"The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in
moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for
selfishness." -- John Kenneth Galbraith
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Be the change that you want to see in the world.(Gandhi)
And the day came when the risk of remaining tight in the bud was greater
than the risk it took to bloom." – Anais Nin
It is difficult to get a man to understand something
when his salary depends upon his not understanding it.
(Upton Sinclair)
What gets us into trouble is not what we don't know,
it's what we know for sure, that just ain't so.
(Mark Twain)
10 types of people in the world today.
Those who understand binary and those who don’t. (Anonymous)
